NEW YORK CITY — The unmarked police car stolen from a Fort Lee motel this morning has been recovered in Manhattan.

According to the Associated Press, the 2005 Audi A6 was located in Harlem, close to the intersection of 125th Street and Riverside Drive at around 10:45 a.m.

The car had been stolen a short while earlier, after an altercation with police at the Skyview Motel on Bergen Boulevard that escalated into gunfire. The driver then fled police across the George Washington Bridge into New York City.

A woman, who declined to share her name, said witnessed she witnessed the pursuit while she was out on the terrace of her North Avenue apartment building, which overlooks the motel.

The man who fled police was being frisked by police in the motel's courtyard while police searched his room, she said.

"All of a sudden he made a run for it," she said. "He took off with the (car) door hanging open. I guess that's when the shots were fired."

Officers in New York City have deployed K-9 units as they search the area, including an upper Manhattan park, for the suspect.